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Dallas hospital
may curtail
AIDS services
DALLAS (AP) — A hospital may
be forced to curtail services to pa
tients with the AIDS virus because it
is having trouble attracting a qual
ified doctor and other employees to
staff its clinic, officials said.
The staff shortage at Parkland
Memorial Hospital has prompted
the hospital to reduce azidothymi-
dine treatments for patients suffer
ing from acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, officials said.
Parkland has funds to provide the
drug to 120 patients, but its AIDS
clinic only has staff to administer the
treatment to 62 patients, clinic direc
tor Dr. Daniel Barbaro told the Dal
las Times Herald Wednesday.
AZT, the only federally approved
anti-AIDS drug, can prolong the life
of an AIDS patient but is not a cure.
About 25 AIDS patients were on a
waiting list to receive the drug. Offi
cials said 200 patients with early
stages of the disease might benefit
from the medication if the clinic
could provide it. The clinic treats
one-third of Dallas’ AIDS cases.
Barbaro said Parkland’s AIDS pa
tients would have to be cared for in
other clinics at the hospital if the
AIDS clinic is shut down.
Hospital officials have been
searching for a physician since July.
Dr. Wayne Shandera, one of two
staff doctors, said he would quit in
December to work in AIDS research.
Advertisements in six medical
journals and word-of-mouth recruit
ing efforts have yielded three re
sumes and one interview with a can
didate who could not begin the
$65,000-a-year job until July.
Dr. James Luby, Parkland’s chief
of infectious diseases and the super
visor who will hire the physician,
said the job is not an easy one to fill.
Officials said recruiting qualified
physicians to treat AIDS patients is a
problem for Parkland and hospitals
throughout the nation.
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6KELAT HLN OF HISTORY?
by Scott McCullar
Waldo
by Kevin Thomas
Joe Transfer
by Dan Barlow
Bracelets of macrame represent ties
of friendship to many A&M wearers
By Tracey Streater
Reporter
Some wear them to represent
friendship, some in the name of tra
dition and some just to measure
their tans. For whatever reason,
macram£ bracelets are showing up
on wrists around campus.
The bracelets, made of a series of
half-hitch macram6 knots, are fairly
easy to make. People learn how to
make them at camp, in student clubs
or from friends. They also can be
bought in the mall. The macram6
designs come in all shapes and sizes,
including bracelets, anklets, rings
and even cords for raquetball ra-
quets.
Most people say the bracelets are
signs of friendship. The bracelet is
meant to remind the wearer of the
person who gave it to them, there
fore it never should be removed.
“The object is to wear the brace
lets until they fall off,” says J.J. Mu-
zik, a junior exercise technology ma
jor from Pittsburgh.
Not all people follow the intent so
stringently. Some change the brace
lets to match their clothing or mood.
To Vanessa Linsley, a junior jour
nalism major from Houston, her
white bracelet holds a traditional sig
nificance.
“It’s called a Turk’s head and is a
Dutch custom,” Linsley says. “In
Holland, the father passes his sailing
vessel on to his son when the boy is
old enough to receive it. They go on
board and point the wheel of the
ship to due north. There, the father
ties a smaller version of the Turk’s
head bracelet to the wheel as a refer
ence point for the son.”
Linsley, women’s captain of the
Texas A&M Sailing Team, received
her bracelet from a close friend
more than seven years ago.
The bracelets don’t always have
such deep significance; some people
like them just because of the way
they look or what they represent.
One place on campus where peo
ple might not be sporting these
bracelets is the Corps-area Quadran
gle.
Since they are not even men
tioned in the Corps Standard — the
book stating the acceptable dress
and conduct of the Corps — they are
not to be worn with the Corps uni
form, says Lt. Col. Donald J. John
son, assistant commandant of the
Corps.
“Corps Staff will be putting out a
memo reinforcing that the bracelets
are not an authorized part of the
Corps uniform,” Johnson says.
However, any cadet can propose a
change to the Corps Standard, says
Lt. Col. Donald R. Henderson, dep
uty assistant commandant of the
Corps.
“If a guy feels (the bracelet)
should be an item, he can go
through correct channels and Corps
Staff will make a decision,” Hender
son says.
Whether the bracelets become
part of the uniform or not, their
popularity with the rest of the stu
dent body cannot be denied, Muzik
says.
“You always notice who has them
on their wrist,” he says. “I think peo
ple who have them are a lot more
fun.”
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